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uBiome clinical tests are fully or partially covered by most health insurance companies under "out-of-network" healthcare benefits, with a valid healthcare provider's order. We have patient assistance programs in place to assist eligible patients with the remaining patient responsibility.

What will the process look like?

1. Upon receipt of your request, we'll ensure that you have the most up to date version of our clinical tests, to date. If you don't, we'll first re-sequence your eligible samples to this version.

2. Around the end of Fall, you'll receive a notification when your newest report (including yeast!) is available.

Which uBiome product is right for you?

SmartGut

SmartJane

Explorer

Patients with chronic gut conditions such as IBD or IBS, or symptoms such as gas, bloating or diarrhea.

Patients with the desire to, alongside their healthcare provider, learn more about their own vaginal health and how to improve conditions, such as discharges or infections, through lifestyle or diet.

Health and wellness tool to help you better discover how diet and lifestyle affect your microbiome.

Doctor authorization required?

Yes

Yes

No

Where is it available?

US and Canada (other countries coming soon)

US and Canada (other countries coming soon)

203 countries and regions where online payments can be made with a credit card or PayPal

What is the price?

uBiome clinical tests are fully or partially covered by most health insurance companies under “out-of-network” healthcare benefits. We have patient assistance programs in place to assist eligible patients with the remaining patient responsibility.

uBiome clinical tests are fully or partially covered by most health insurance companies under “out-of-network” healthcare benefits. We have patient assistance programs in place to assist eligible patients with the remaining patient responsibility.

Microbiome Awareness Month – Eat Your Stinky Microbes!

This is often a time of year when we splurge on specialty foods, one of which are stinky cheeses – so let’s smell our way around the origins of some of these odorous treats.

Just four ingredients are needed to make cheese: milk, salt, rennet… and microbes. The earliest cheeses were made around 7,000 years ago, largely by accident.

Traditional cheeses can include dozens of types of microbes which play a big part in how a cheese tastes and smells. Once it has done its job, the majority of this bacteria dies naturally, but it can be inclined to survive in some Alpine and hard cheeses such as emmental, gruyere, and pecorino — contributing to their flavors.

There are microbes known as smear bacteria that are responsible for some of the cheese shop’s stinkier products like münster and limburger.

In fact, washed-rind cheeses have an odor like smelly feet because the bacteria they have, Brevibacter, can also be found on unwashed human skin.

At the next social gathering you attend, when you are presented with an array of stinky cheese treats, you will be able to appreciate their pungent odor and flavor, knowing just how microbes played a role in both.